Header tech help

[PsyOps]

Please help me identify the following set of headers: from a 69 RR w/426 Hemi, stock suspension. They are raw steel, 2.125" pri, 4" collectors with the weld-on tabs to safety wire the headers tubes to the collector plus a 24" collector extension. No numbers anywhere to be found. I searched high & low but am unable to find a set with the pri/collector combination. Anyone have an idea? I was hoping these were commercially made but, if they are a custom set, they are very well done. I'll post pics in the next day or two.

 

[33 IMP]

From your description, I would guess either Hooker SuperComps or custom.

 

[PsyOps]

Thank you sir. Are there Super Comp headers that are no longer in production? All I can find are headers with 3.5" collectors except for a few A-Body sets - and if they were on a 69 RR, I doubt they would also fit an A-Body.

 

[33 IMP]

Yes. I have a set of hooker super comp adjustables for 62-65 b-body wedge that went out of production decades ago. Three individual pipes (center pipes paired) and a slip on collector. They came with no flange for a street exhaust, but I welded on some flanges, and also to the extensions that came with them.
(2" pipe, 3 1/2 collector)
To be honest, I also have a pair with 2 1/4 pipe and a 4" collector also, but they were pure custom made (many years ago) and have no markings as to who made them (Marko custom headers, long out of business).

 

[33 IMP]

Hooker (super comp) adjustable (not the regular super comp one piece) for a big block chevy (still available) are 2 1/4" / 4". I suspect hooker adjustables for a hemi would be similar size.

 

[Budnicks]

Photos may help Identify them too, a bunch



lots of better mass-produced headers have removable collectors, with tabs
without exhaust flanges welded to them, in 3" 3-1/2" & 4"

someone could have also just changed the collectors too,
could be a mass-produced header, with different collectors & extension
on an 'Out of the box'/mass-produced set of competition-style headers
& then added the slide on/with tabs 24" extensions sounds like it to me

are they equal length tube/tuned headers ?
not very many mass-produced them

are the collectors a 4 into 1 style merged collectors ?
std deal
2-1/8" is sort of small for a 426cid race header
sort of like this style collector

or
are they
(4-2-1) 4 tubes into-2 tubes-1 large collector & welded on extension/tabs etc. ?
more custom deal/aftermarket collectors

 

[dvw]

2-1/8" is sort of small for a 426cid race header

My 64 has the Hooker Super Comp 2 1/8" with 3 seperate tubes and a slip on 3 1/2" collector. In fact my son just bought a set. New in the box, coated for his 62. They certainly aren't decades old. Mine are 11 years old. I tried the merge style collectors this year (also 3 1/2") with no improvement. Does it need 4"? Maybe but it does pretty well with the small ones. Even at 580"
Doug

 

[Racer1210]

The header‘s that I believe Doug has is the Hooker adjustable race header #5320 and are still available. Just bought a new set last year.